CNN’s Jake Tapper referred to as out Trump for utilizing Putin as a personality witness within the legal instances in opposition to him.
Tapper opened CNN’s State Of The Union by saying, “Watch as the leading Republican candidate Donald Trump quote one of our nation’s foremost adversaries, Vladimir Putin, as a sort of character witness while on the stump in New Hampshire last night.”
Trump mentioned, “Vladimir Putin, of Russia, said that Biden, and this is a quote, politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system which could not pretend to teach others about democracy.”
Tapper continued, “One would possibly assume such some extent needn’t be made however Vladimir Putin, a former Ok GB official with blood on his palms who commonly sides with American adversaries each rhetorically and with arms and who proper now has at the least two Individuals, Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan unjustly detained. Vladimir Putin just isn’t a reputable supply of details about American democracy, a lot much less American jurisprudence. Vladimir Putin seeks to undermine the US and its allies, whether or not in Europe or Asia or the Center East. And but regardless of regardless of this or possibly by now due to it, I can now not inform, Mr. Trump stands poised to do very nicely within the Republican Iowa caucuses on January fifteenth in lower than a month.
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Jake Tapper calls out Trump for utilizing Putin as a personality witness, “The leading Republican candidate Donald Trump quote one of our nation’s foremost adversaries, Vladimir Putin, as a sort of character witness.” pic.twitter.com/YnMNoSIdih
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 17, 2023
Donald Trump is utilizing Putin to vouch for his character and his voters are applauding. That is the place the Republican Social gathering is, and the place that celebration desires to take the US if Donald Trump returns to the White Home.
Tapper was proper to name this out. Putin is unhealthy for America, and democracy doesn’t seem to be one thing that should be mentioned, however it clearly must be as a result of so many different elements of the press insist on treating Trump like a traditional candidate who just isn’t a risk to democracy.
Extra journalists on nationwide tv have to be stating what they assume could be apparent, as a result of with so many others within the press normalizing and enabling Trump, what is clear is getting buried underneath company lies for revenue.
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